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woman, though not for a man; on other parts of the body there can be said 

 to be no unusual growth of hair. There is a great mammary development. I 

 have measured her head carefully, and it does not differ much from the aver- 

 age of these races as given by Dr. S. G. Morton. 



Occip. Front Horizontal 

 arch. Periphery, 



1-3-1 20 



13 20 



These measurements are somewhat approximative, as the integuments over 

 th3 skull are preternaturally thick ; she has, therefore, a well-proportioned 

 though small brain, and is capable of considerable cultivation. This head 

 varies somewhat from that of an American Indian : there is no characteristic 

 prominence of the vertex, no flatness of the occiput or forehead, no want of 

 symmetry in the two sides : the shape of the cheeks and the complexion is 

 hardly Indian. The space between the orbits is large, the eyes are very black 

 and piercing ; there is no obliquity to be noticed as in the Mongol. The nose 

 is flat, quite unlike the aquiline nose of the Indian, and yet not like that of the 

 Negro. The mouth is very laige, and the lips prominent and rather thick; the 

 gums are in a curious condition, being swelled ah 1 round so as to rise above 

 and conceal the teeth ; they are not sensitive, and so hard as to allow her to 

 crack hard nuts with them; the growth in the upper jaw is chiefly hyper- 

 trophy of the bone, and in the lower jaw principally a disease of the gum 

 resembling "vegetations." The molars, bicuspids, and canines are normal, 

 though the latter are imbedded in the abnormal gum, while the back teeth are 

 behind it ; she is said never to have had incisors, but that must be an error, 

 as she has the stump of one even now in the upper jaw, and there is no reason 

 to believe that she had not the normal number ; this condition of the gums 

 might readily cause the loss of the exposed front teeth, while the back teeth 

 mi-ht remain sound. She has a decided chin which would indicate her hu- 



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manity if nothing else did. She has a well-formed arm, and a small symmet- 

 rical hand ; she has also small feet. She is a perfect woman in every respect, 

 performing all the functions of women regularly and naturally. 



She is evidently human, and nothing but human ; she is quite unlike the 

 mixed African. Is she an American Indian ? It may be here remarked that 

 her complexion, soft skin, hair, and shape of the head, face, and nose, remind 

 one more of an Asiatic than an American type ; her disposition, too, is 

 mild and playful, her manners gentle and communicative, differing from the 

 sullen, taciturn, and forbidding ways of the Indian. It is well known that 

 some authorities maintain that the California Indians are of Asiatic origin 

 Malays who have been thrown in some way on the American shore from the 

 Pacific Islands. The notion also prevails among many of the tribes bordering 

 on the Gulf of California (among the Ceris for instance), that they are of Asi- 

 atic origin. This girl seems either of Asiatic origin, or of Asiatic and Ameri- 

 can Indian mixed. She is no specimen of a degenerate race, but an exceptional 

 specimen, such as occurs not unfrequently in all races. Hairy women have 

 lived before her without any suspicion of brute paternity. The conformation 



